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        <fullName>Rep. Richardson, Laura [D-CA-37]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Cooking Helps Elevate Futures Act or CHEF Act - Directs the Attorney General to establish a pilot program providing federal inmates with training and certification in the culinary arts, and job placement assistance after their release from custody.</p> <p>Directs the Attorney General to select ten different federal correctional facilities in different regions of the continental United States to participate in the program. </p>]]></text>
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